Improvement in loo-loaders and filers



i To whom 'it may concern:

para anni.

JAMES je. BRADY, or FOREST HILL, MICHIGAN.

i @team Patent NQl 104,548, .mea .um 21,1870.

vThe Schedule yreferred `1:0,in these Letters Patent and making part `of the sama Be it known ythat I, #TA'Ms G. BRADY, of Forest `;I:Iill, inthe county of Gratiot, and State of Michigan, have invented a` new and useful Improvement `in a Log-Loader and Piler; 'and I do declare that the `i`ollowing is a true and accurate description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and i to .the letters of ,reference marked thereon and being `a `part of this specification, the drawing showing my device in perspective.

The natureof this .invention relates to the construction of a device for loadiuglogs andheavy'timbersonto arwagon, for piling up logs for burning them, in clearing up land, and for other like purposes.

. f `It consists iu the peculiar construetionof a winch,

to be operated by animal power, ou a sled, andin-connecting therewith an adjustable folding derrick-with suitable tackles and fall, operating as more fully hereinafter set forth.

Inthe drawingl y A represents a sled, into the beams of which is framed a pair ot heavy standards, B, connected-near their tops by a beam, C.

D is a shaft joumaled in the lower part of the stand.-

ards, and carrying a geared drum, E, which meshes i with and rotates a geared winch, F, journaled in thcv standards above it. One end of the winch is provided wit-l1 a ratchet, a, with which eugages'a pawl, b, hung on the adjoining standard` `F is a long beamlresting in` sockets at the tops of the standards, and, for convenience in transportation, may be made to fold, Vas at c.` Sliding in the sockets, it maybe made to overhang the inner standard-more or'less, being secured in position by a pin, d, passing through the top ofthe .outeristandard and one of the holes e in its rear end. I y

Gis a derrck pivoted to and sustaining the overhanging end of thebeam F', on which slides a sleeve, H, from which is suspended a block, I, through which,

and a'companou block, I', is rovevthe rope J, the tail vend of which is led over a' sbeave in the upperV part of the adjoining standard, down over a sheave in the beam C, and secured to the winch F5. i K are grapnel-hooks suspended from the block I. L'is a hoist-rope', one end of which is secured to the drum E, around which several turns are-madel with it, and thence led under a guide-pulley,M, secured to a run `out and supported by the derrick, so as to straddle the log, when the fall is dropped and thelgrapnels driven into it'. `The team is then hitched to the hoistrope and started ahead, which will rotate theI drum as the hoist-rope is unwound. from it; the drum in turn winds up the rope J n the winch, and raises the log suiciently high from the ground to permit a wagon to be backed or driven under it, the pawl in the mean time retaining the log suspended. By raising the pawl the log islowered onto the wagon, easing its descent by the spokes shown on thewinch, if necessary.

IIn piling up a log-heap under the beam for burning, the logsare drawn as close as practicable, when a similar plan is pursued.

The device =is equally applicable to loading heavy stones on a stone-boat, and to other like purposes.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

'lhe combination of the sled A, standardsB, beam C, shaft D, geared drum E, hoist-rope L, geared winch F, ratchet a., pawl b, derrick-beam F', derrick G, sleeve H, blocks I I', grapnels K, and rope J, ar-

ranged and operating as and for the purpose set forth.

JAMES G. BRADY.

Witnesses:

LEWIS RANDOLPH, GEORGE Brees. 

